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{
"time": "2022-04-07 13:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Denis Trudel (Longueuil\u2014Saint-Hubert, BQ)",
"fr": "M. Denis Trudel (Longueuil\u2014Saint-Hubert, BQ)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7067812\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Madam Speaker, last spring, my colleague, who is a member from Quebec, voted in favour of the Bloc motion recognizing Quebec as a nation with French as its only official language.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7067813\" data-originallang=\"fr\">The Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois believes that if Quebec is a nation, it should have special political weight to protect its specificity. Under this bill, Quebec will be allowed to keep 78 seats but, unfortunately, that will be out of a total of 343. Its political weight in this federation will therefore drop from 23.7% to 22.74%.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7067814\" data-originallang=\"fr\">As a Quebecker, how can my colleague accept this drop in Quebec's political weight?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7067812\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, mon coll\u00e8gue, qui est un d\u00e9put\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec, a vot\u00e9 au printemps dernier en faveur de la motion du Bloc qui reconnaissait que le Qu\u00e9bec formait une nation ayant comme seule langue officielle le fran\u00e7ais.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7067813\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Le Bloc qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois pense que si le Qu\u00e9bec est une nation, il devrait avoir un poids politique sp\u00e9cial pour prot\u00e9ger sa sp\u00e9cificit\u00e9. On voit malheureusement dans ce projet de loi que le Qu\u00e9bec pourra garder 78 si\u00e8ges, mais que ce sera sur un total de 343 si\u00e8ges. Son poids politique dans cette f\u00e9d\u00e9ration passera donc de 23,7 % \u00e0 22,74 %.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7067814\" data-originallang=\"fr\">En tant que Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, comment mon coll\u00e8gue peut-il accepter la minorisation du poids politique du Qu\u00e9bec?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2022/4/7/denis-trudel-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/denis-trudel/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4558/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "11621952",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Preserving Provincial Representation in the House of Commons Act",
"fr": "Loi sur le maintien de la repr\u00e9sentation des provinces \u00e0 la Chambre des communes"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2022/4/7/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2022%2F4%2F7%2F"
}
}